World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators, 1961-1963 (ICPSR 5022)

This data collection, the first edition in the World
Handbook series, comprises interval-level social, political,
economic, and demographic indicators for 141 countries in the
period 1961-1963. Information is provided for the size of the
country, the number of years independent, total population,
population per square kilometer, gross national product (GNP),
gross capital formation as a percentage of the GNP, government
revenue and expenditure, foreign trade, employment in industry
and in agricu... (more info)

This data collection, the first edition in the World
Handbook series, comprises interval-level social, political,
economic, and demographic indicators for 141 countries in the
period 1961-1963. Information is provided for the size of the
country, the number of years independent, total population,
population per square kilometer, gross national product (GNP),
gross capital formation as a percentage of the GNP, government
revenue and expenditure, foreign trade, employment in industry
and in agriculture, degree and annual increase of urbanization,
and voting characteristics. Other variables provide information
on security, public enterprise, military personnel and
expenditure on defense, domestic group violence, and votes in
national elections for political parties such as the Communist
and Socialist parties, religious parties, and noncommunist
secular parties as percentage of total votes. Other variables
provide information on population characteristics such as the
number of births and deaths per 1,000, live births per 1,000,
life expectancy at birth, income distribution, percentage of
population of working age, Roman Catholics, Christians, and
Moslems as a percentage of the population, immigrants and
emigrants per 1,000 population, percentage of literate
population aged 15 and above, enrollment in primary and
secondary schools, index of achievement motivation,
marriages per 1,000 population aged 15-44, and inhabitants
per physician and per hospital bed. Additional variables
provide information on daily newspaper circulation, radios
and televisions owned, cinema attendance per 1,000 population,
private consumption, and the distribution of agricultural land.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

Russett, Bruce M., Karl Deutsch, Hayward Alker, and Harold Lasswell. World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators, 1961-1963. ICPSR05022-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1968. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05022.v1

Methodology

Sample:
A total of 141 countries considered significant in
comparative or international politics.

Data Source:

United Nations agencies, official publications of
national governments, special studies, scholarly monographs and
publications, and nongovernmental research organizations publications

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: